Riot when tanks \ bruisers will finally get nerfed?

Morgeyl··1 votes·250 views

I am adc main, and current situation from my point of view is very, very sad. I am not a pro player or a challenger, but an average gold \ silver player. At this point, I see same picture in every game - tanky top lane and\or jungler picks up tanky masteries and builds full tank or full tank with one damage item. Then with those items they are able to dive back line like adc or mid laner and completely destroy us in one engage, while taking very limited amount of damage. They do not even need full build - one or two completed items is more than enough for them to drop a squishy such as adc to 0 or less than 30% hp in one engage. I am well aware how to build my champions to deal with tanks, but in order to do it - it requires serious outplay from my part - dodge every skillshot, very good positioning and being ahead of them in gold. If I am not fed and very very well farmed - I will likely drop withing few seconds of tank engage. It would be somewhat fair if tanky champions had hard time to engage ranged squishies, but if you look at the spell kits of most junglers in this meta, you will see one very obvious thing - they have long range, easy to land, low cooldown initiators. They just have to point, click , and they are sitting on adc's face. And if they dont drop you right away, they chase you down. I know in competitive pro play situation is different, there you have a team of players that play well with each other and help each other. But its still same 4-5 tanky junglers / top laners every game.

To sum everything I said above - at this point tanks are way out of control. They have high damage, high mobility that requires no skill and take no damage with their high armor and hp stats. With dragon and baron changes they can easily force down towers and destroy nexus. When this will finally end? There are so many ways to make tanky champions viable for the team, yet not overpowered to the point, where every teamfight starts with diving onto the back line champions and killing them in 2 seconds, and finishes between couple tanks from each side poking each other for a minute till one of them dies.

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Critmaster Garen3 votes

les say riot nerfs tanks and bruisers. you know what happens then?

people pick assassins everywhere.

if riot nerfs assassins, whats next?

people pick mages everywhere.

because its not actually mages, supports, tanks or assassins that are broken, its ranged ad. and every meta just revolves around killing them as efficiently as possible, because theyre the most overpowered class in the game.

the flow of the game is dictated by ranged ad, as they are the strongest class at taking objectives. theyre also the class that deals the most damage to champions by lategame. so theyre the center of every teamfight, and the deciding factor of how many objectives you can take after youve won a teamfight.

(just think about how much easier it is to take baron or a turret with your adc present, than without him)

and if youre not playing at low gold or silver rating, but in an environment where teamwork exists, and people actually peel for the ranged ad, then they are ridiculously effective. and every team comp basically breaks down to 1 ranged ad + supports who peel for their own adc (this can include tanks and bruisers) and champs who try to assassinate the opposing adc.

this is how much the game revolves around them.

SEKAI2 votes

God forbid tanks are actually decent and fulfilling their life purposes once in a while.

God forbid squishies need to build actual defense against damage to survive once in a while.

God forbid squishies actually play like squishies and need team protections once in a while.

God forbid the game telling you not to go out solo people as squishies once in a while.

And yes, Riot just hates tanks as much as you do, even though it isn't the way to do it but fk it here we go,

A nerf to Cinderhulk and a buff to BotRK, you should be happy.

Onimus Terlain1 votes

When they become OP, they'll be nerfed.

Xinotine1 votes

ADC main here too, and this is far better than assassin meta :S

Yes, there are tanks, but that's why we exist! ADCs are best bet for taking out those tanks so we are needed. And tanks also provide pretty good protection for us.

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